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SENT TO:-
SPANISH MEDICAL AID COMMITTEE.
24/28, New Oxford Street,
LONDON, W.C.2.
1st November, 1937.
Mrs. B.M. Abrams,
S.M.A.C.,
Manchester District C'tee;
500, Kingsway,
MANCHESTER, 19.
Mr. R.M. Hargreaves,
Rossendale Local S.M.A.C.,
3, Whitehead Street,
Rawtenstall,
ROSSENDALE, Lancs.
Dear Mrs. Abrams,
Dear Mr. Hargreaves,
The Spanish Medical Aid Committee have considered your letter of the 7th October last, addressed to Mr. Jeger, and has asked me to deal with this matter as Chairman of the Committee.
You will remember that you wrote to me on the 9th. October, enclosing a copy of the letter that you sent to Mr. Jeger, as you did to some other members of the Committee. I subsequently acknowledged it, and said that I would be dealing with the subject in a subsequent letter.
I quite understand the feeling that may have arisen in Manchester and in Rossendale over the question of the Ambulances and their long stay in London before their despatch to Spain; but the situation is one which really is easily capable of explanation, and I think on reconsideration, when your Committee has the facts, they will agree in the main issue, that the London Committee has done the best it could in a situation which was not easy.
It is quite true that the two Manchester Ambulances which were sent to the Committee for despatch to Spain were retained in London for some time. I quite understand the feeling of Local Spanish Medical Aid Committees that Ambulances might be built in their area, both from the point of view of local pride, local interest, local stimulation, and for local display, but really even with the specifications which we have received from Spain in your possession, it is not easy to supervise, or for the Central Committee to properly supervise, the details,
/ and,

SENT TO:-
SPANISH MEDICAL AID COMMITTEE.
24/28, New Oxford Street,
LONDON, W.C.2.
1st November, 1937.
Mrs. B.M. Abrams,
S.M.A.C.,
Manchester District C'tee;
500, Kingsway,
MANCHESTER, 19.
Mr. R.M. Hargreaves,
Rossendale Local S.M.A.C.,
3, Whitehead Street,
Rawtenstall,
ROSSENDALE, Lancs.
Dear Mrs. Abrams,
Dear Mr. Hargreaves,
The Spanish Medical Aid Committee have considered your letter of the 7th October last, addressed to Mr. Jeger, and has asked me to deal with this matter as Chairman of the Committee.
You will remember that you wrote to me on the 9th. October, enclosing a copy of the letter that you sent to Mr. Jeger, as you did to some other members of the Committee. I subsequently acknowledged it, and said that I would be dealing with the subject in a subsequent letter.
I quite understand the feeling that may have arisen in Manchester and in Rossendale over the question of the Ambulances and their long stay in London before their despatch to Spain; but the situation is one which really is easily capable of explanation, and I think on reconsideration, when your Committee has the facts, they will agree in the main issue, that the London Committee has done the best it could in a situation which was not easy.
It is quite true that the two Manchester Ambulances which were sent to the Committee for despatch to Spain were retained in London for some time. I quite understand the feeling of Local Spanish Medical Aid Committees that Ambulances might be built in their area, both from the point of view of local pride, local interest, local stimulation, and for local display, but really even with the specifications which we have received from Spain in your possession, it is not easy to supervise, or for the Central Committee to properly supervise, the details,
/ and,